A word or graphic in a Web document that, when clicked upon, takes the user to a other related pages or sites on the Internet. Move a mouse over a link and the arrow will change to a hand icon.

The way that web pages are linked so that users can easily jump from one to another when they click on highlighted words.

term for an embedded html code that allows an internet user to go from webpage to webpage and website to website. Hyperlinks are often used as underlined blue text that changes color after the hyperlink is clicked. A graphic can be a hyperlink to another webpage as well.